Re: malicious filesystems (was Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Jul 21 2007 - 05:28:22 EST


On Sun 2007-07-15 15:06:59, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > SIGKILL won't work on a stopped task. Neither on a traced task.
> >
> > Why do you think so? It works in both cases (ptracer can use
> > PT_TRACE_EXIT, but the task is killed anyway).
>
> Just from experience with tasks stuck in "T" state. After for example
> an UML dies, some of the processes only react to SIGCONT, but not to
> SIGKILL.
>
> I have no idea why this happens.

Anyway that should be fixed, not used as excuse for fuse misbehaviour.
Pavel
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